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MONDO CELLULOID

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About Me


Welcome to MONDO CELLULOID!
A source for cult cinema screenings and updates, discussion and reviews, and your own one-stop calendar of repertory screenings throughout Los Angeles. From cult flicks to horror to foreign to classics, with a focus on the bizarre and the obscure.SPOTLIGHT ON...
HEAVENLY BODIES
FREE SCREENING!
New Beverly Cinema
Saturday, June 7
midnight
Happy Birthday Phil!!
_____________Tuesday, June 3
ONCE (2006) , New Beverly, 7:30pmDouble Feature with:WAITRESS (2007) , New Beverly, 9:15pm_____________Wednesday, June 4
BLAZING SADDLES (1974) , Regency South Coast Village Village (Costa Mesa), 7:30pmHIGH NOON (1952) , Bay Theater (Seal Beach) , 8pmFOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE (1921) , Cinefamily,_____________Thursday, June 5
FOLK SHORTS BY LES BLANK , Cinefamily, 8pm_____________Friday, June 6
HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) , Bay Theater (Seal Beach), 10:15pmCLASS OF 1984 (1982) , Cinefamily, 10:15pmDouble Feature with:CLASS OF 1999 (1990) , Cinefamily, midnightTERZA MADRE, LA (MOTHER OF TEARS) (2007) , Nuart, midnightTHE LADY EVE (1941) , Cinefamily, 7:30pm_____________Saturday, June 7
HEAVENLY BODIES (1984) - HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL BLAKENSHIP!!! - FREE SCREENING!!THE APPLE (1980) , Cinefamily, 10:15pmBOONDOCK SAINTS (1999) , Angel City Drive In, Gates: 7:30pm, Show: 9:00pmTHE DAMNED DON'T CRY (1950) , Cinefamily, 1pmTHE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU (2005) + STUFF AND DOUGH (2001) , Cinefamily, 5pm

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


TORGO!

Music:


SLOWDIVE
COCTEAU TWINS
LUSH
MY BLOODY VALENTINE
STEREOLAB
PALE SAINTS
BELLE & SEBASTIAN
PIXIES
SMITHS
ANGELO BADALAMENTI
DAYSLEEPERS
BAUHAUS
ORCHIDS
SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS
ALTERED IMAGES
LIFE WITHOUT BUILDINGS
THE DAMNED
OINGO BOINGO
MICHAEL NYMAN
CHAMELEONS
OS MUTANTES
DR DEMENTO
DEAD CAN DANCE
JOANNA NEWSOME
SERGE GAINSBOURG

Movies:


Filmmakers:
DAVID LYNCH
JACK HILL
TAKASHI MIIKE
HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS
JACK HILL
JOHN WATERS
SAM FIRSTENBERG
KEN RUSSELL
EDGAR WRIGHT
MARIO BAVA
JOEL COEN
PEDRO ALMODOVAR
STANLEY KUBRICK
ALEJANDRO JODOROWKSI
DARIO ARGENTO
RUSS MEYER
WERNER HERZOG
CHAN-WOOK PARK
PAUL VERHOVEN
TOBE HOOPER
HAL ASHBY
NEIL MARSHALL
DAVID CRONENBERG
LUCIO FULCI
JOHN LANDIS
LLOYD KAUFMAN
TERRY GILLIAM
TREY PARKER
JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET
GEORGE A. ROMERO
MICHAEL HANEKE
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
KENNETH ANGER
SERGIO LEONE
JOHN CARPENTER
LARRY COHEN

Television:

TWIN PEAKS ADULT SWIM

My Blog

UWE BOLLS POSTAL

Before sharing 100 guilty, gleeful minutes with the other 7 people who'd decided to spend a Saturday afternoon with Uwe Boll's Postal,  I had never seen a Uwe Boll film.  Of course, I am nev...
Posted by MONDO CELLULOID on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:44:00 PST

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULLS

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the second installment in the Jones series in which our hero finds himself leaping from a plane on an inflatable raft, going psycho after drinking the dreaded Blo...
Posted by MONDO CELLULOID on Mon, 26 May 2008 12:58:00 PST

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN

First Iron Man, and now The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian...  Aren't summer blockbusters supposed to suck?? From its opening scene, you know this is not going to be your standard Disney pa...
Posted by MONDO CELLULOID on Thu, 15 May 2008 03:49:00 PST

PUSSYCATS & DEVIL DOLLS

Hello you wild insomniacs!First of all, did you know that the bathroom at Raffallo's, the Italian restaurant on Sunset & Fuller, has a vending machine in the bathroom that sells toothbrushes? ...
Posted by MONDO CELLULOID on Tue, 13 May 2008 05:45:00 PST

Cafe at the Vista! Black Devil Doll! Haji! Geekscape! Jaime Sol Black!

Two days before the big show, and already I have some great new friends to give big heaping thanks to.  Saturday's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! screening is going to be a blast, all the more so ...
Posted by MONDO CELLULOID on Thu, 08 May 2008 03:44:00 PST

FANGORIA: OTIS - Review

By far the highlight of this weekend's Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors was Otis, a new horror comedy which screened Sunday afternoon.  The feature directorial debut of Mulholland Dr. producer Tony ...
Posted by MONDO CELLULOID on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:06:00 PST

FANGORIA WEEKEND OF HORRORS: INTRO

I had originally intended to write an all-encompassing uber-blog about my adventures at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors, but decided to break it all up because some moments and films (particularly the c...
Posted by MONDO CELLULOID on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:16:00 PST

MISTER LONELY

I've always been a huge fan of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings - for those unfamiliar, this is the classical (1936) piece that plays throughout The Elephant Man, and in the scene where poor El...
Posted by MONDO CELLULOID on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:40:00 PST

ZOMBIE STRIPPERS

Holy shit!  Zombie Strippers is really, really good!The film's myspace page proudly announces "It's horror!  It's comedy!  It's political satire! It's a statement about the absurdity of...
Posted by MONDO CELLULOID on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:19:00 PST

PROM NIGHT (2008) + THE RUINS

I know, I know...  Why did I even try, right?  Between the two movies, that was about $37, factoring in popcorn and soda.  Oh, then there's gas, too, so maybe $40-ish.  But look, i...
Posted by MONDO CELLULOID on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:34:00 PST